Doh!

Here’s a bit of Newton memorabilia I was able to scan in. It’s nearly black in my notebook, and I had to clean it up to make it somewhat legible –

It’s a crash dump showing the CPU registers after Something Bad happened while I was scribbling away on a Newton; the unit was untethered from any debugger so this is all that was available.

I remembering spending a few minutes laboriously copying down the numbers when (duh) I realized that I could simply upend the Newton on our photocopier and paste a copy into my engineering notebook. The print was a bit dark, but it sure saved time.

The only example of physical cut-and-paste on the Newton that I’m aware of.

How fortunate I am. I used a Palm back then (Hanspring Visor), and I still use a Palm today (Treo 680, soon to become a Centro). So I still have the full archive of meetings, contacts and notes for the past ten years in my pocket, because the memory of the machine got bigger faster than I may ever fill it up.